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Egyptian police suffer casualties in ambush
[Al Jazeera] Up to 30 Egyptian coppers have been killed in a shoot-out during a raid on a suspected hideout of fighters in the country's Western desert, security sources say.Rooters news agency quoted sources as saying the deaths occurred on Friday when the officers were following a lead to an apartment thought to house eight suspected members of Hasm. Hasm is a group that has claimed several attacks around Cairo targeting judges and coppers since last year. The suspected fighters tried to flee after the exchange of fire there, the sources said, and continued to shoot at a second security unit called in for back-up from atop neighbouring buildings. The fighters also used bombs in the attack, the sources said, adding that 16 officers died in the shoot-out and the number was expected to rise. Two security sources said eight security personnel were maimed in the festivities, while another source said that four of the injured were coppers and four others were suspected fighters. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-21 |
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